When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The broad-shelled river turtle (Chelodina expansa) falls into a group known as side-neck turtles.

WASHINGTON — A family returning from a trip to China earlier this month brought some special cargo with them through Dulles International Airport: four baby turtles with brightly painted shells. The ...

Turtles at Fernbank Museum Here are some more photos from the Turtles exhibit at Fernbank Museum of Natural History. It's on display until Sept. 1, 2025. (sponsored) More than 300 different species of ...

In 1972, Harvard paleontologist discovered the remains of several massive pre-historic turtles while on a research expedition in northern Venezuela. Now, nearly fifty years later, scientists report ...

A recent tragedy occurred in Indian River County, Florida when an elderly man tried to save a turtle. The reptile was slowly creeping across I-95 when an 87-year-old Vermont native attempted to help ...

A photograph of the fossil turtle Eorhynchochelys sinensis, which lived about 228 million years ago and sported a beak but no shell. Nicholas Fraser, National Museums Scotland If a turtle grows a body ...

It's a long-held idea that turtles can tuck their heads into their shells when threatened. But is it true? And is this protective trick why turtles the world over have shells today? The answer is that ...